Posted on: December 6, 2024
nickpaine
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interesting
fun even though i have no idea what i am doing
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Caves of Qud
Description
Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Decide: is it a dying earth, or is it on the verge of rebirth?
NOTICE: a complete development roadmap can be accessed here.
You arrive at the oasis-hamlet of Joppa, along the far rim of Moghra'yi, the Great Salt Desert. All around you, moisture farmers tend to groves of viridian watervine. There are huts wrought from rock salt and brinestalk. On the horizon, Qud's jungles strangle chrome steeples and rusted archways to the earth. Further and beyond, the fabled Spindle rises above the fray and pierces the cloud-ribboned sky.
You clutch your rifle, or your vibroblade, or your tattered scroll, or your poisonous stinger, or your hypnotized goat. You approach a watervine farmer—he lifts the brim of his straw hat and says, "Live and drink, friend."
NOTICE: a complete development roadmap can be accessed here.
Who are you?
Play the role of a mutant indigenous to the salt-spangled dunes and jungles of Qud, or play a pure-strain descendant from one of the few remaining eco-domes—the toxic arboreta of Ekuemekiyye, the Holy City; the ice-sheathed arcology of Ibul; or the crustal mortars of Yawningmoon.You arrive at the oasis-hamlet of Joppa, along the far rim of Moghra'yi, the Great Salt Desert. All around you, moisture farmers tend to groves of viridian watervine. There are huts wrought from rock salt and brinestalk. On the horizon, Qud's jungles strangle chrome steeples and rusted archways to the earth. Further and beyond, the fabled Spindle rises above the fray and pierces the cloud-ribboned sky.
You clutch your rifle, or your vibroblade, or your tattered scroll, or your poisonous stinger, or your hypnotized goat. You approach a watervine farmer—he lifts the brim of his straw hat and says, "Live and drink, friend."
What can you do?
Anything and everything. Caves of Qud is a deeply simulated, biologically diverse, richly cultured world.- Assemble your character from over 70 mutations and defects and 24 castes and kits—outfit yourself with wings, two heads, quills, four arms, flaming hands, or the power to clone yourself—it's all the character diversity you could want.
- Explore procedurally-generated regions with some familiar locations—each world is nearly 1 million maps large.
- Dig through everything—don't like the wall blocking your way? Dig through it with a pickaxe, or eat through it with your corrosive gas mutation, or melt it to lava. Yes, every wall has a melting point.
- Hack the limbs off monsters—every monster and NPC is as fully simulated as the player. That means they have levels, skills, equipment, faction allegiances, and body parts. So if you have a mutation that lets you, say, psionically dominate a spider, you can traipse through the world as a spider, laying webs and eating things.
- Pursue allegiances with over 60 factions—apes, crabs, robots, and highly entropic beings—just to name a few.
- Follow the plot to Barathrum the Old, a sentient cave bear who leads a sect of tinkers intent on restoring technological splendor to Qud.
- Learn the lore—there's a story in every nook, from legendary items with storied pasts to in-game history books written by plant historians.
- Die—Caves of Qud is brutally difficult and deaths are permanent. Don't worry, though—you can always roll a new character.
Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Freehold Games, LLC
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43 hMain
70.5 h Main + Sides
503 h Completionist
90 h All Styles
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Eurogamer
5/5
Densely imagined and as complex as you fancy, this roguelike RPG is brilliant.
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94/100
Caves of Qud is a genre-defining achievement in play, story, and roleplaying freedom.
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4.5/5
A staggering achievement in terms of role-playing interactivity and flexibility, that also manages to be both accessible and maintain a fun sense of the absurd.
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Posted on: December 6, 2024
misternineham
Verified ownerGames: 8 Reviews: 1
Stragglingly deep, Addictly fun.
you can never explore all of it, as much as you may want to. One of the best games i've played.
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Posted on: July 23, 2018
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GoddammitAll
Verified ownerGames: 69 Reviews: 3
You will die a lot, but...
Isn't that the only promise of any true rogue-like game? Yes, often you'll die not far from the spot you started, but that one time when you're slaying vicious goat-men and teleporting crystalline entities with your blood-powered laser rifle in the jungle-reclaimed ruins of a fallen city makes all that frustration worthwhile. This game is not a visual banquet. It's the depth and breadth of a 'choose your own adventure' novel in interactive form. Though lacking in the graphical metrics that the modern gamer has come to expect, it more than makes up for it in the vision that Caves of Qud exhorts from the player in written and technical form. While it is true to its 'In-development' status in a few glaring ways, I believe in the vision of this game & all games like it. We must be prepared to vote with our money for the art we want to see, and this is my contribution to that dream. Strive on, story-tellers, and thanks for this opportunity to see your world. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a hoversled to repair before I make another foray towards the Spindle. Wish me luck!
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Posted on: January 26, 2025
AppleKeypad
Verified ownerGames: 63 Reviews: 2
Menu Bugs Galore
Game is very fun... when the menus are working properly. And menus are a very big part of this game. Currently there is a bug where after playing for so long the menus start taking multiple inputs from a single keystroke causing issues like abilities being used when you dont want them to (the ability set to "a" in the menu will go off immediately when pressing the ability key which is also "a") or pouring out all 64 drams of your waterskin when pouring becuase it takes the enter key input from the previous menu and immediately applies it to the next, skipping past the all too important amount selection.
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Posted on: August 10, 2025
RagInABag
Verified ownerGames: 103 Reviews: 1
Great Game
It looked overwhelming, but its not that bad. Very playable, and although there is still a solid learning curve, it already feels so rewarding
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